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throwthrowrowon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

  > it's not like china they making cars or batteries or chips by hand

That was true a while back but less so now. Chinese companies are moving to "dark factories", which can function autonomously without humans (hence no need for lighting).

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1jci...

throwthrowrowon Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board

I read the memo. Maybe just me, but I don't see any indication that it was tongue in cheek.

throwthrowrowon Reasoning is not model improvement

Question #1 was on the model's ability to handle arithmetic. The answer to question seems to be unrelated, at least to me: "you can enable or disable tool use in most APIs".

The original question still stands: do recent LLMs have an inherent knowledge of arithmetic, or do they have to offload the calculation to some other non-LLM system?

throwthrowrowon Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

Discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957307

throwthrowrowon Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

Mostly true but the exception is K-Pop, which as I understand was the creation of a project by the South eKorean government. There was a severe financial crisis in the late 1990s where the country almost went bankrupt. Desperately seeking sources of revenue, the government funded K-Pop groups which eventually become a global phenomenon (BTS et al). At least that is what some Koreans have told me.

throwthrowrowon Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

I think it will be a temporary phenomenon. Tiktok people arrived on RedNote last week and were jaw-droppingly amazed at videos of flashy modern Chinese cities, natural wonders (Guilin mountains), beautifully dressed young men and women, tasty food, Luigi fandom, and cute cats.

For many it was a revelation that the US government/media complex has been systematically lying to them about China. They are arriving at an acceptance that the US is a shabby declining empire dominated by a corrupt elite and heartless broligarchs. Always a good thing to bump up against reality, imho.

However I think that the US-based population of Tiktok refugees will subside once the novelty effect has worn off. Probably shrink by half in a month. Hopefully there will remain a positive lingering effect.

throwthrowrowon Maybe Bluesky has "won"

Does DOGE (Dept of Govt Efficiency) post exclusively on Twitter? Just wondering